02/06/2023
His name is Toby and he was the best Giant Schnauzer ever 🥹
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As most of you know, we let 🌈Toby🌈 go a couple of days ago due to complications from a tumor found on his spleen just a day before. To say that these past couple of days have been hard is an understatement. So I tried to focus on all the positive memories we had together and I made this video - it took mw the entire day, it’s not a high quality one, but for me and my family it’s perfect 🥹 The caption will be a little long too and you don’t need to read it all if you don’t want to - it’s mostly for us to remember him, as we are all afraid that we’ll forget.
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Like I said he was the bestest boy 🐶 ever.
- He loved the snow ❄️ winter was his favourite season and he had the most fun ever;
- He LOVED food like nobody else, boy did he love food, we kept saying that he’s eating our ears 😂 (a Romanian saying); his favourites, besides meat of course, were the juicy fruits and veggies - he loved watermelon, melon, oranges and mandarines, BANANAS 🤤, crunchy carrots, cabbage, broccoli and so many others, but his most favourite of all were cucumbers 🥒- no matter where he was in the house, when someone cut a 🥒 in the next 5 sec he would be next to you for his piece 🤣
- He LOVED WATER 💦 in the summer, not only to keep hydrated 😝 but to have fun with; he loved the sprinklers and the water hose from the garden, but most of all he loved the pool, once he learned how to swim he was so relaxed in the pool; what I regret is that I didn’t keep it clean for longer periods of time so that he can have more fun;
- Toby loved hiking so so much. Though we didn’t go that much, coincidentally this past summer, in 2022, we went on the most hikes ever, and he had the time of his life. Nothing stopped him, stairs up & down, rocks, trees, stumps, roots, holes, nothing, he was always ahead and pushing forward, waiting for us (well for the rest of our family since I 🙋♂️was in front with him 😋) when he was just a bit too far upfront, always taking care of his family, of his pack.
- He loved naps, he loved to be spoiled and he loved to ressle mostly with me and my dad and whenever we would say stop, he would stop.
- He stayed with us at the table while we ate and he pre-washed 😂 (licked in other words) the tablespoons and teaspoons that we used for things that he loved like almond butter, coconut oil and so on.
- He helped me “steal” 😜 fir seeds from the park, and elderberry flowers (when we didn’t have one in our garden) to make cordial.
He loved walks so so much, no matter if it was -30*C outside, but once it got over +25*C he would prefer staying inside.
- He loved car rides maybe more than any other dog, because he knew we would always go somewhere fun, even if it was at the vet, he loved going there too 🥹 We have so many fun memories in the car, besides the last one 💔
He loved to open gifts on Christmas day, his or ours it didn’t really matter if he had one or not; even these past few years that were harder financially and we didn’t really have gifts, we just wrapped treats or just stuff in gift paper and he would have the time of his life opening them 🥹
- Did I mention he loved FOOD and WATER and SNOW 😂 yet?
- This past autumn he also met his first big farm animals, a couple of young bulls - while he was intimidated by their stature, he was brave enough to come close and smell them; he didn’t like the piggies to much though 😅
- He loved meeting people on walks, but not to stay for a chat, a few pets and he would be ready to go. Kids on the other hand, he loved giving them kisses and he was so gentle with them, even though he didn’t grow up around them.
- He also loved to bark, oh boy did he love to bark. If anybody would approach our home, he was the doorbell and the security system all in one.
- He was so patient too - he never chewed any of the furniture or carpets or shoes.
- He didn’t like to get his nails trimmed or his ears cleaned (that was our fault) but slowly slowly we managed to get him somehow used to it. Brushing was the same, but once we started doing it regularly he was ok 🙄 with it 😂
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And just so we don’t ever forget, we didn’t choose him, he chose us - when we were supposed to pick a puppy from the litter, he actually went to my dad, sat in his lap and fell asleep 🥹 could he have been any more direct than that? I don’t think so! 😁
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As hard as this past few days have been, I want to think that he believed we would offer him the best chance to survive so long, even though 10 years seems so short for us, so HE CHOSE US! How cool is that?!
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Do I have regrets? Of course I do! I could have played more with him, took him on more walks, more hikes, I could have snapped at him less… I could have done more, but I can only hope that what we did do as a whole family with and for him was enough and made his life amazing as it was.
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But boy do we miss him! 🥺 Our home seems so much emptier. Why would we go out in the yard now, or on walk or on hikes if he’s not here? What will we do with the time we spent preparing his food every night? Who’s going to lick all those spoons and teaspoons? My bedroom seems so empty at night… but I hope that with time it will hurt a bit less, without forgetting. Until we meet again our best friend Toby ❤️🐶❤️
